New-York tribune., 1887-04-24
"a MODEL LANDLORD"
HOW KIyG-HARMAN WON AND LOST Hls
TITLE.


THE NEW PARLIAMENTARY UxDER-sRcRETARY FOR
IRELAND on HIS IRISH ESTATES.
TO tie Edftor Of The Trtbuns.
SIN: The close fight between Colonel Z. X. hng-
IIarman, member Of Parliament for one Of the divi
sions othe Isle of Thanet and Major Saunderson' the
Orange representative for one OF the divtrons Oh
County Armagh, TOR that prize, the Par'i- n'a,y
Undei Secretaryship for Ireland, which ended IN tnc
triumph of the former brings that landlord poten'ae
once more prominently before the public.
"The Colonel" to term by which ne Is pes'
known among his teuartry the west OF Ireland s,
ply scally splendid type of manhood. He If almos
six three inches in height Ii you a)pen 10 meet
him crossing O'Connell Bridge in Dublin, or hurfyng
past the old Parliament House in College Green on MS
way to the Castle you will remark that he STALKS not
walks. As Boyle, the centre of his Roscommon prop
erty. is a town Of only about $500 inhsbitants' he
shakes the street when he goes that way ana carries
himself with that air of authority which seems TO say
am the natui al ruler here. was born in posses
sion OF this place and we're all satisfied, aren
wet" And without waiting to hear reply h, ccntin-
ues onward and disappears within the demesne wall
This is six miles in length and incoscs
Rockingham palatial residence, said to be inferior
to few in England and to be the most magnihceht IN
ireland, with the sin ye exception perhaps, OF hii-
kenny Castle, where the Marquis OF Ormonde dweiis
Within O stones throw OF the Castle wall are the
Curlew Mountains the one side and on tne other
the widely kno wn Plains OF Boyle" which you may
country. These plains all rich meadow land dotted
over with Sites where houses stood houses when
have been long since levelled to the ground. Inc
people who dwelt in these houses took refuge on the
Curlew Mountaips-a barren place which yielded moth
ing. by dnt of hard work they actually made land
which in tine became productive and then built
houses rather huts The rents were at once raised,
of course and those patches which were worth moth
ing and tor which rent had been demanded at one
time an OPT ressive levy was now made. This Is the
pleasant picture TO be from the porch OF Rocking
ham Castle more suggestive of human suffering than
the scene within the Castle ordinary night or
on "gaa day when his reputed rent ioll OF f4O0OO
is paid up or used to be paid up.
King -ITarman may be called resident landlord if
one speaks comparatively in u country where absen-
teesm is the rule but say absolutely Is tar from
the truth. e claimed that the tenants liked him until
the Land League started and that they then
turned upon him and further ,aim OF long standing
that he /" n good landlord y was like wise sum-
madly upset. 1t will be interesting to hear how these
claims camo TO be entered tor probate as a good
landlord in Ireland at that time tive years ago. was
difficult to find. In the first place, the Colonel" IT
hs were on the side OF Ireland, could be leader. Tor
he possessed all those personal characteristics which
the Irish love TO see in man. He would minge with
the people in the fairs and markets or Mt an election
and carry stout blacktborn and flourish IL and even
use il "a effectively as one OF themselves lie generally
NO matter what the pattern the material was always
home manufacture. And then he spoke not like a
cockney" but like an Irshman with deep rich bass
voice. The tenantry were particularly pleased with
this because the insuerabe snobbery OF nearly all the
landlords and all the landlords is shown in their
affected English accent although they may have never
lived "A day out of Ireland When he rode down from
Dublin and got out at the little country station all
Boyle was astr and it ii talk during that even
ing that the Colonel Is in town." He owned the
land and Owned the people the land, and they
owned that he owned them and didn't seem rs though
they felt at ali dissatisfied. He was Lord Lieutenant
of the county which he was alpoweriul, and
was invested with powers as despotc as those of a
Turkish Paeha, though the people couldn't bring
themselves to admit that be acted like Pacha
so accustomed had they become to their imp )vsrished
and wretched condition. The Land League ap-
peared so Unexpectedly, however and In such small
beginning thst nobody imag ined what was coming
II first exposed and next in the person OF OF its
alhost leaders, William O'Bien overthrtw The mighty
magnate. He has never forgiven the Land League
since nor anybody connected with 1t.